Please Squeenix, implement blind bids on the markets...

[roohan]

In my opinion the market won't work in the long run as it stands now. The markets is flooded by materials and the supply is too high compared to the demand. Just yesterday I was mining iron ore for my blacksmith and another 6! Miners were doing the same. Now I got 300 iron ores and about 30 HQ ores. Multiply this by the other miners and your at 1800 iron ores. I got 10 levels as blacksmith from these ores and still have about 100 ores left over. This means that about 9 blacksmiths can level from 15 to 25 from those six miners and their ore. Now taking into account that I didn't mine for leveling it gets even worse. Because miners gather even more than just 300 ores when they want to level on these.

As a crafter the same thing happens. You craft a ton iron Ingots noone really needs. You end up with like 1 stack of iron ore but on the markets are already several stacks listed, since you're not the only blacksmith grinding on iron ingots. The end of the story is that people start to undercut, because the supply is so damn high. There is still valuable stuff on the markets, but running through the town tells me that it's getting more problematic. In every corner sits a crafter who's going to hit level 50 fast I never so many people crafting in FFXI for example.

Even HQ items will drop in value pretty soon. I have carpenter and weaver at level 50 now. And with my cross class skill and HQ gear I can almost HQ everytime without using HQ base materials. This means more and more people will get two crafts at 50 as time goes by. This is especially bad because as miner or botanist I can't HQ at the rate my blacksmith can.

Even high level items will,drop because one crafter after the gets level 50 in no time.